This talk explores Asian women’s efforts to elaborate other orders of value through acts of relation, improvising new supports for life in the face of colonial state abandonment and mass death. Drawing on the complications of gender, sexual, racial, and labour politics of care, Nadine examines the experiences of the thousands of white British and other Allied soldiers and civilians, who were imprisoned in urban camps during the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong in WWII. Nadine explores how we might make sense of women’s practices of relation-making in a wartime context, where the uneven distribution of precarity not only intensified, but itself became an object of interimperial contestation. To British and Japanese observers, colonised people’s practices of relation-making mattered principally insofar as they hindered or furthered the reproduction of imperial life. Mobilising the insights of queer of colour and leftist feminists, Nadine reveals Asian women’s efforts to elaborate other orders of value through acts of relation, improvising new supports for life in the face of colonial state abandonment and mass death.